Congratulations to Dr. Frank Stahnisch
Congratulations to ISHN member Frank Stahnisch, who recently received the M.D. degree from the Free University of Berlin with his dissertation: "Ideas in Action - Der Funktionsbegriff und seine methodologische Rolle im Forschungsprogramm des Experimentalphysiologen François Magendie (1783- 1855)". Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin, 2001, 222 pages (Dissertation für den medizinischen Doktorgrad / Dr. med.) His most recent paper at an ISHN meeting was in Cologne last year: "Making the brain plastic: Early anatomical bench strategies to adapt behavioural changes to morphology". For the abstract, see: http://www.ishn.org/ab35-2001.htm Dr. Stahnisch is now at the Institute for History of Medicine and Medical Ethics, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg. On the ISHN membership directory he lists the department homepage, from which one can step to his website: http://www.gesch.med.uni-erlangen.de/staff/Stahnisch.html Russell Johnson ISHN Secretary